Gymnasts visit SCSU on Saturday for Tri-Meet

Allison Mak. (photo by Sam Rubin '95, Yale Sports Publicity)

Feb 04, 2010

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - After defeating Penn
187.775-179.600 in its first home competition of the year last
Saturday, the Yale gymnastics team doesn’t have to travel far
for its meet on Saturday, as the Bulldogs face cross-town rival
Southern Connecticut State and Ithaca on SCSU’s New Haven
campus.

Last season, Yale fell to SCSU at John J. Lee Amphitheater, but
the Bulldogs will be sending what is essentially an entirely
different lineup from last season’s to face the Owls last
year. In 2009, junior Sherry Yang, who now competes in three events
for the Bulldogs, was unable to compete against SCSU due to
injuries, and Brigitte Kivisto, last week’s ECAC Gymnast of
the week and Yale’s top performer in the all-around
competition, only competed on the balance beam as she recovered
from injuries as well. The Bulldogs also boast a talented class of
four freshmen this year, including Tara Feld, who broke the Yale
record on the vault last week against Penn.

Last week, SCSU finished first at the Brockport Invitational,
defeating four other teams with a score of 187.275. The week
before, the Owls received their only defeats of the year, falling
to Brown and New Hampshire at a four-way meet at Brown.

Ithaca, ranked fifth in the nation among Division III schools,
is also off to a hot start. After falling to Brockport in their
season-opening meet, the Bombers defeated Rhode Island College and
Springfield College, two schools that Yale will see later this
season, in consecutive meets.